Nostr Web Client

Thanks for explaining! So…let’s say I want to check if my friend “Dave” is on nostr. On other platforms he goes by some handle “@CoolDave”. I go ahead and type variations of his name/handle into the search field but get no results that appear to be him.

Is it still possible that he is active with his name/handle, but I can’t find him in “my” part of nostr?

How closely would our relays have to be located (direct connection, 1 hop, several hops) for him to appear in my search results?

If he sends me his public key via text, will I find him no matter how “far” we are apart?

David King 2y ago

If he sends you his public key (npub) you can pretty reliably find him. Depending on your client it might automatically check for relays where he is already publishing and add it to your list of relays on Nostr.

For search/namespace stuff I usually use https://nostr.band. There are various services that try to aggregate all the people/notes they can find across all the relays they know about.

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813r 2y ago

Cool, thank you!

Question concerning storage space in the network: I understand the pure text communication is very efficient and relays can provide this with use of very little resources. But since there are no centralized servers, all data has to be provided by the relays.

What about pictures and videos? If I start spamming loads of data, will relays start banning me at some point?

Does anyone who runs a relay need to set and adapt the rules that his or her relay follows?

Thank you for your time 🙃